Mark Cousins | Masterclass | 2012
Irish director Mark Cousins is most known for his prolific 15 one-hour chapter documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey broadcast on More4 and featured at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. Other films include What is this Film Called Love? (2012), A Story of Children and Film (2013) and Here be Dragons (2013).
In this masterclass, Cousins gives insight into how he structured What is this Film Called Love? explores the use of narration, and tells us the importance of really looking at the subject. Cousins also discusses the power of the aftermath of documentary film.
“It’s an ad lib. It was made on three days off, as a response to the six years of making ‘The Story of Film’, for fun, to do something emotional and a bit sad. Its main subject is walking and being alone!” – Mark Cousins
This class is made up of 10 parts ALL viewable at the top of this page in the embedded playlist, or in the podcast below:
Part 1: Action! Framing Footage
Part 2: Getting People Interested
Part 3: Working with Cards
Part 4: The Essay
Part 5: Confidence in Filmmaking
Part 6: Situationism
Part 7: When to Keep Looking
Part 8: Capturing Feeling through Film
Part 9: Experiencing Places & the Filming Process
Part 10: Using Narration
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